Are You Grumpy?
Do you tend to view things as negative or bad,
sometimes, without seeing how your emotion makes others feel?
Do you believe that people are often unkind to you?
Do you often think the worst of a situation??
Then you may be a victim
of the tricky Unthinkable:
hmmph!
Grump Grumpaniny
Not to worry because there is help.
Superflex has a couple strategies
to defeat this character:
t Think about how the person treats you. Is he friendly or mean to you?
If this person is
friendly to you then it is likely that he is being nice to you.
t Self talk: “I am being negative. What could be a positive way to think about it?”
t
Appendix E: Additional Superflex and Unthinkable Handouts
Stephanie Madrigal & Michelle Garcia Winner ©2008 www.socialthinking.com